Bundled, Tossed, Untied And Stacked: Publishing News



By Tom Spurgeon

* the biggest news of the week publishing news-wise comes via word that the writer Mark Waid and the artist Fiona Staples have been tapped to relaunch the Archie comics into a more modern setting and tone with Archie #1. Those are both fine choices, very skilled creators with devoted followings. And it seems like they could find a lot of value in doing a modern-era comic, although I don't always get the branding exercises they're performing with those licenses.

* Gerry Conway, who back in the 1970s was by my math the only major writer for Spider-Man to write the character when he was a same-age peer of Peter Parker, is going to write a few more comics starring the character at a point in time when this observation will no longer apply. If I can figure out which comics are Conway's when I'm in a store next year -- never guaranteed! -- I'll buy one and check it out. In the meantime I'll re-read some of those 1970s classics, some of them most traditionally accomplished comics Marvel ever published.

* Ibrahim R. Ineke is offering a subscription deal on the forthcoming Blackbook Vol. 2.

* Rat Queens has a new artist: the talented, veteran creator Stjepan Sejic. The original artist and co-creator of the hit fantasy series, Roc Upchurch, was let out of art duties after domestic violence charges. He's not mentioned in the new release at all. The best information I have is that Upchurch still has an interest in the comic, although at this point any number of arrangements could have been made or could have been in place. The title returns with a special in January featuring a guest artist, Tess Fowler.

* Don Rosa snares an Artist's Edition.

* Joe Casey and Jim Mahfood on a Miami Vice comic is enough to get me to pick it up.

* the cartoonist Ed Piskor has an active Facebook account where he provides status updates on projects in a variety of accessible settings; one of them recently said he was about eight pages away from finishing the third volume of his Hip-Hop Family Tree series, so that should continue to be a high-profile project. As much as Piskor seems to travel in support of the series, that's an additionally impressive accomplishment.

* this is how long it's been since we've had work of varying types from Jessical Abel. I look forward to this being corrected in 2015.

* I can't find a flat jpeg of the cover to make an OTBP out of it, but this looks like a kids' comic to which Kevin Cannon contributed.

* finally, Daryl Toh and Edward Gan have a comics-driven horror 'zine out later this month. It's only a few days away, but I rarely get to cover publishing news from that realm of comics-making, and I like the cover.


 
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